14, August 2007 Karl Rove
It certainly seems like the rats are deserting the sinking White House ship in growing numbers. Now comes the startling news that Karl Rove, the deputy chief of staff, “Bush’s brain’’ , is resigning, effective August 31. Rove’s imminent departure is no doubt precipitated by his shadowy role in the politicization of the Justice Department’s firing of nine US attorneys and the looming “sub-prime” mortgage loan debacle. It will certainly be interesting to see how Rove plans to continue to defy subpoenas issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee as a layman unprotected by current claims of executive privilege.
Rove barely escaped indictment for revealing Valerie Plame’s identity as a undercover CIA operative to columnist Robert Novak and Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper. Let us hope the Democrats will find the moral courage to investigate Rove and his ilk, who have been playing fast and loose with the law. It will be increasingly difficult for the “decider” to deflect growing disenchantment with his leadership and now founds himself trapped between “Iraq and a hard place”. It is entirely possible that Bush will manufacture a “new crisis” to deflect attention from the ‘sub-crime’ scandal where two million Americans face foreclosure of their homes.
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